Valdostan Union

The Valdostan Union (UV) is a centrist political party in the Aosta Valley region of Italy that was founded on 13 September 1945. The UV was founded by Valdostan veterans of the Italian Resistance during World War II, and it was a close ally of Christian Democracy from 1946 to 1954. However, after 1954, it began to shift towards the left wing of politics, and it won the 1959 regional election in coalition with the Italian Communist Party and the Italian Socialist Party. After the split of the social democratic Progressive Valdostan Union (1966) and the conservative Valdostan Rally (1973), the UV temporarily declined, but it returned to being the largest party in 1978. From 1974 to 2017, with the exception of only three years in the early 1990s, it dominated the government of the Aosta Valley.